6A day will be Thursday. The Metro 5A schools will chase championships on Friday and the 6As will get their shots on Saturday if they make it past Thursday.

That’s the 30-second primer. There's a lot of good stuff for local fans to monitor this week if you consider yourself a hoops fan this week at the Final 48.

Here’s what Jefferson and Shelby County folks will be paying attention to this week:

1) Can Wenonah have the best day in its basketball history? It starts with the boys. Those guys have been like rock stars drawing big crowds all season and it continues this week at the Final 48.

They should have two big performances left in them beginning with a 1:30 pairing on Wednesday. That’s when the No. 1 Dragons take on No. 2 Paul Bryant at 1:30 in the final 5A semifinal of the day.

Nobody has ever won three state AHSAA titles in a row in either of the state’s two largest playing classifications. That feat has been managed in the smaller classes, but never among the big boy schools.

Let’s not forget the girls. While a powerful Brewer team is considered the favorite in the 5A bracket, they are a legit contender.

How big would the Wenonah’s smiles be this week if those teams won back-to-back titles on Thursday night?

2)Hoover’s girls looked primed for a repeat. The Bucs cleared the biggest hurdle off the deck in top-ranked and unbeaten Sparkman at the Northwest regional final in Hanceville.

What’s left? They face another strong Carver-Montgomery (24-2) team and the Blount-Huntsville winner in the 6A final on Saturday. If the Bucs can do it, they would join McGill-Toolen (1981), Decatur (1991), Butler (1999), Sparkman (2003) and Bob Jones (2009) as the only schools to defend a state championship in Class 6A.

Decatur actually won three titles in a row in 1992.

Senior standout Marqu’es Webb also is in the running for her third straight AHSAA state championship. She’s also trying to threepeat after winning a Class 4A title at Brewbaker Tech in 2011.

3)Way to go, Midfield. While on the subject of streaks, please consider the work done over the last decade by the Patriots. Midfield has reached the Final 48 for the ninth straight season.

Midfield’s nine straight regional titles is second only to Deshler’s 10 straight (2001-10) since AHSAA began regional play in 1994. Spring Garden won seven straight from 2002-08 and B.C. Rain’s six straight from 1994-99 is the longest streak on the boys side.

They will see a stiff test in the semifinals versus a Lauderdale County girls team seeking its 10th all-time AHSAA state championship.

4) What will Mountain Brook and its tremendous fans do? -- The Spartans and their crowd are the odds-on favorite to bring the largest crowd to the BJCC this week when the play on Thursday. That even goes for all the schools bringing both their teams to Birmingham this week.

The Spartans has been tabbed the visiting team against Blount so look for the neon to be in full force during that game. That hue that has become the staple of the Mountain Brook program in big games of late.

What to watch for? It will be hard to miss the Spartans at the BJCC this week. They'll definitely be one of the highlights in town this week.

5) One men’s clothier is going to make some $$$ this week – One of the things to look far at the Final 48 with the Wenonah boys in action over the last few years has been coach Cedric Lane’s wardrobe choices.

He’s not Pat Riley yet or anything but over the past few years he’s always brought something to the bench that’s actually able to distract the crowd from his fantastic team during warm-ups.

6)Look out for Center Point – Senior guard Jeffery Hodge has been “Mr. Big Shot” during the state playoffs with two game-winning baskets in overtime.

While everyone is talking up Wenonah, the Eagles have a winnable game up ahead with South regional champion Faith Academy. It should set up a likely all-Birmingham state championship game in Class 5A.

7)Blount County and St. Clair Counties represented -- Oneonta’s top-ranked girls are also alive for the Class 4A title. Junior Destiney Elliott will lead the Redskins toward their playoff fate this week and she’s in the middle of a splendid career.

She had 25 points and 20 rebounds in the Northwest regional final to earn MVP honors.

Oneonta's program has never won an AHSAA state basketball championship. Those girls meet Dadeville (20-9) in a winnable game in the semfinals and will have to beat the Clarke County-Madison County winner in the 4A title game on Saturday to win it all.

Ragland’s 1A semifinal was mentioned above and it looks like they have the team this week to at least get to the state championship game against the winner of a must-see contest between Marion County and St. Jude. The winner of that game would be seen as the favorite against the Purple Devils.

8)One win shy of No. 100 -- Keep this in mind as the Hoover girls seek to repeat as Class 6A state champions. If the girls do it, that’s a milestone for the school.

That would be the 100th recognized AHSAA state championship in Berry and Hoover High athletics history.